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Daniel Buren / Monumenta 2012, a set on Flickr.
Daniel Buren / Monumenta 2012. Grand Palais Paris
“Facebook: A Like Story” considers Facebook’s IPO and its future. Breakingviews has been quick to alert readers to potential red flags for investors, such as: how the switch to mobile internet usage presents a serious threat; the dangerous precedents set by other companies that granted super-voting stakes to their founders; and how paying $1 billion for a 13-person startup, Instagram, suggests a certain degree of panic.
SOUNDMACHINE - Three units, which are resembling standard record players, translate concentric visual patterns into control signals for further processing in any music software. The rotation of the discs, each holding three tracks, can be synced to a sequencer.
How else can you sell laptops? Storytelling and executing it perfectly.
Intel has done it this time.
Watch Ultrabook™: House of Flying Laptops (by channelintel)
Consider this curve of how people react in situations that cost money.
A musician is standing on a street corner playing real good for free. Most people walk on by (3). That same musician playing at a bar with a $5 cover gets a bit more attention. Put him into a concert hall at $40 and suddenly it’s an event.
Mr. Goldberg of FAB.com is among a new generation of e-commerce executives determined to measure the impact of social marketing and act on it in nearly real time. He keeps constant track of how many people visit Fab.com from, say, Facebook, Pinterest and Google Plus. He gauges Twitter posts that mention the site’s newest items as harbingers of next-day sales. He regularly blogs about the company’s revenue, product trends, app use and leading sources of traffic. He has also hired two customer analytics start-ups to determine the current and potential value of Fab.com shoppers.
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Beachy Head / Seven Sisters - Brighton on Flickr.
Day off with Mom and the relatives. Travelled for 45 mins to and another 45 mins back from Brighton to enjoy this view for 4 mins amidst the rain and wind. Casualties: 4 Made-In-China umbrellas. Pix using a Blackberry camera.
Harvard Business Review Article: The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, Author of Steve’s biography. Read more
The map of Max Planck institutes on the right shows their respective locations, whereas the world map on the bottom shows the locations of external collaboration partners.
